On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Yaakov Nemoy wrote:
My main issues are perceived ideas of privacy on IRC. It's a
quasi-ethical one that has to do with what people expect from an IRC
channel vs. mail.
We need to make it clear to people that they have no expectation of
privacy on IRC.
We had this debate over at Sugar Labs not too long ago. Which is worse:
having a public record that everyone knows about, or having several
private records that can be used for the same purpose, but not as
transparently, which is the status quo? There is no privacy on public IRC
channels, period, and people who convince themselves otherwise are fooling
themselves.
My $0.02 there, fwiw.
PISG does its analysis completely differently from EKG. Ethical
issues
aside, getting IRC logs into EKG is *very* simple. I could do a test
demo using logs i have on my shell server. My comments were about
adapting the graphs and reports that PISG generates. Since it's written
in Perl, i couldn't reuse anything there easily without just rewriting.
If you're interested, we could set up PISG and EKG side by side for any
reason in particular, but i think alot of the general purpose analysises
i have planned for EKG would rival what PISG can already do. I'm
definitely not planning on rewriting what i have to work with PISG code
in Perl, 2 rewrites is enough. PISG can't handle mailing lists, and EKG
has the capability but not ability to handle IRC channels.
I'd say slurp it into EKG. It's not rocket science.
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